Garment-loop.



A. K. CROSS.

GARMENT LOOP.

APPLlcATloN FILED JULY 31.1912.

1,147,21 3. y Patentedmly 20, 1915.

caLUMBlA PLANOGRAPH c0..wAsHlNGTON, D. C.

ANSON K. CROSS, 0F WIN THROP, MASSACHUSETTS.

GARMENT-Loor.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 20, 1915.

Application led July 31, 1912. Serial No. 712,506.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ANsoN K. CROSS, a citizen `of the United States of America, of lVinthrop, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Loops, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the loops used principally for suspending coats, though it may be embodied in a loop for supporting any other garment.

The object of the invention is to produce a garment suspender which shall be simple, neat and inexpensive, and which may be quickly replaced when worn or broken without the use of needle or nuts.

My invention consists in the improvements hereinafter described and claimed.

Of the drawings forming a part of this speciiication, Figure l is a side view of a garment-supporting loop embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the same.

Similar `letters refer to similar parts in both figures.

In the drawings, D, D represent metal terminal members having plates or bases, adapted to be sewedor otherwise attached at spaced apart points to a garment, each plate, as here shown, having stitch-receiving orifices l.

C represents a flexible strip preferably of textile fabric, of sufficient length to bridge the space between the attached members D. The edges of the plates or bases D are turned up to form over-hangingears 6. rlhe ends of the strip C are provided with enlarge-` ments, here shown as pins E, E, inserted in the looped ends of the strip C, said strip being endless and flattened, as shown by Fig. 2. The ends of said enlargements are en- Copies of this patent may beobtained for ve cents each, by addressing the ystituted therefor.

gaged by the ears 6, which confine the eni larged ends of the strip in sliding engagement with the terminal members. The end portions of the strip may be separated'from the terminal members by outward sliding engaged with a garment-supporting hook and flexed thereby, the enlarged ends are held firmly in engagement with the terminal members. When the strip is broken, vthe sundere'd parts may be readily removed from the terminal members and a new I claim :a-

A garment-supporting loop comprising two metal terminals having bases adapted to be attached at spaced apart points to a garment, and a iiexible loop adapted to bridge the'space between the attached terminals and having enlargements at its end portions, the terminals being provided with means 'for slidably conlining the said end portions on the bases of said terminals, and with stops which coperate with 'the said enlargements in limiting movements of the said end portions toward the inner ends of the terminals, the end portions of the strips being separable from said stops and removable from the terminals by movements toward the outer ends of the terminals.

In testimony whereof I haveaflixed my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

ANSON K. CROSS.v Witnesses: y y v M. SUMNER HoLBRooK, MAUDE S. SMITH.

"Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

